Truespel
establishes a new phonetic notation for English and a new spelling convention for showing
stress in a word. Using this notation, you can indicate exactly how you pronounce any
word, including regional dialects and most foreign words.

Truespel is the world's first
notation for phonetic spelling that does all the following:

Shows syllabic stress

Uses common English spelling patterns as a basis

Does not use any special characters or symbols

Minimizes confusion with traditional English spelling

The objective of truespel is to provide a consistent notation that enables you to spell
according to the sounds (or phonemes) you hear. Conversely, it enables you to read aloud
any dialect or language spelled in truespel, i.e., as a translation guide.For this,Truespel is far simpler than any other writing system or
pronunciation guide.One
of the goals of the Truespel Foundation is to form a phonetic anglocentric basis for
spelling, learning, and analyzing most of the major languages as rewritten in truespel.

Because truespel gives a written rendering of the spoken word, in effect you spell
what you hear. The phonetic spellings of this converter show a USA accent as taken
from a popular USA talking dictionary CD-ROM.Thus, you can learn standard USA media accent by studying this
converter.

Associate the sounds in the story with the truespel way of spelling them, and you have
the 40 phonemes of USA English.The only other truespel rules are that an apostrophe precedes a glottal stop
(glo'le), and a quote precedes a stressed vowel in the absence of a double consonant.
That's it.It's as simple
as could be.

For now, for those who want an easy-to-read and accurate pronunciation guide in USA
accent, there is this truespel converter.Many applications are possible, especially translation guides,
remedial tutorials, ESL tutorials, and possibly text-to-speech.

Also, for the first time common spreadsheet functions can be used to analyze the sounds
of USA English via the truespel dictionary. Check it out at truespel.com for database and
other information, free for educational, noncommercial uses.Note that official changes to Truespel are only through
consultation with Tom Zurinskas, to establish version control. Contact the address below
if youd like to work
in Truespel.